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JOHN MURRY PEARSON, OF VALLEY JUN GTION, IOWA.

HINGE.

. SEECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,222, dated September 24, 1901. Application filed June 18, 1901. Serial No. 65,007. (No'modeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatLJoHN MURRY PEARsoN,a citizen of the United States, residing at Valley Junction, in the county of Folk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Reverse-Motion Hinge, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide an improved hinge specially adapted for hanging gates to posts in such a manner that the gates can be swung in reverse ways, so that the gates may extend parallel with either side of the fence and not project partly in the gateway or road to narrow the passage or to be liable to contact with a wagon when passing through the gate.

A further object-is to prevent the gate from being lifted and removed from the gate-post to which parts of the hinges are fixed, as frequently occurs when separable hinge members are used for hanging a gate.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hinge member adapted to be fixed against the flat face of a gate-post or door-jamb. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a mating hinge member adapted to be fixed to the fiat face of the upright of a gate or the edge of a door and to be pivotally connected with the other member and extended in alinement therewith from either end thereof. Fig. 3 is a face View of the complete hinge, showing how the two mating members are pivotally connected by means of metal straps and also showing the members in alinement with each as required to retain a gate open and extended at right angles from a roadway. Fig. 4c is a top view of gate-posts and portions of a fence and a hinged gate in a closed position. Dotted lines indicate the positions the gate can be placed and retained relative to a gate-post to which it is hinged and the panel of fence connected with the post to which the gate is hinged.

The letter A designates the flat and main portion of the hinge member, adapted to be fixed to a gate or door, and B is a right-angled extension at its base. From one end portion of the extension projects a lug O in a plane above the top face of the part B, and on right-angled extension J at its bottom anda lug K at one end portion of said extension, projected in a plane above the extension, and is provided with a pivot L on its top.

J is a lug extended from the other end portion of the part J in a plane below its bottom face and has a pivot L projecting downward therefrom. A metal strap M is pivotally connected at one end withthe pivot D, projecting upward from the lug O on the part B of the member A, and also pivotally connected with the pivot L, that projects upward from the lug K, extended from the hinge member composed of the parts J and H. A second metal strap M is pivotally connected with the pivot D projecting downward from the lug 0 extended from the hinge member A B, and the pivot L projecting downward from the lug K of the hinge member H J. The metal straps contact with washers m, placed on the pivots to reduce friction, and keys 'n are extended through perforations in the pivots to retain the straps on the pivots. The two members of the hinge are thus securely connected in such a manner that the one member can be swung in reverse ways relative to the other member anda gate-post, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, or re tained in parallel position in front of the member fixed to the gate-post, as shown,when the gate is in a closed position.

Having thus set forth the construction, application, and operation of my invention, its practical utility will be readily understood by persons familiar with the art to which it pertains, and what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A reverse-motion hinge composed of two members and each member consisting of a fiat main portion adapted to be fixed to a gate or post and having a right-angled extension at its lower edge, a'lug at each end of said extension and one of said lugs proj ected in aplane above the extension and the ward as shown and described for the purposes other in a plane Below the eiitension and one stated.

of the lugs provided with a pivot projecting upward and the other 111g provided with a pivot projected downward, a straight metal JOHN MURRY PEARSON 5 strap connected at its ends with the pivots projecting upward and a straight metal strap connected with the pivots projecting down- Witnesses:

W. E. ANDERSON, HERMAN RAAZ. 

